Cross-Infection Due to Imipenem-Resistant Bacteroides fragilis Associated with a Totally Implantable Venous Port
- 1 August 2002
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 40 (8) , 3032-4
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.40.8.3032-3034.2002
Abstract
Four patients in an oncology ward developed Bacteroides fragilis bacteremia over a 12-day period. Cross-infection between two of them, due to an imipenem-resistant strain, was demonstrated by epidemiological investigation and genotypic typing methods (arbitrarily primed PCR fingerprinting and nucleotide sequencing of the cfiA genes and upstream IS 1186/ IS 1168 elements).Keywords
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